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Looking at their forums, it should become apparent that nvidia does not care about problems their customers are having. Therefore, I have to turn to people they might listen to or work with to solve such problems - Windows and Microsoft.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (Retail). My video card is a nVidia Geforce 8800 GT.
The issue is that the video is locking up, flickering, freezing, and even sometimes causing the "blue screen of death" - The problem is widely reported, and is also widely misdiagnosed as overheating. The card is not overheating, let me be quite clear on this. The card is also not old and ready to die (Another common misdiagnosis by techs who would brush difficult problems away.)
The issue is: Whatever nVidia has done with their drivers, they do not get along with Windows 7. The issue, if you search the web, is exclusively a Windows 7 problem.
I saw an article earlier regarding something that was implemented in Vista that would detect if the video drivers were crashing, and attempt to close and restart them without rebooting. I can not remember what this feature is called, nor can I find that info again (I found it while at work and did not save the URL sadly) - but it certainly seems like that's what is going on. The video will flicker while I am in a game, the game will freeze, and then after a second, the screen will go black, then the game will come back up, but at lower graphic detail. Evenually, the game will do the same thing again, and go back to full detail.
That's just a theory, though, of course.
I have tried the latest nvidia drivers, as well as the drivers from Windows update. I have not yet tried the nvidia beta drivers, but have read from other users that there was no luck in using them. Some users reported luck when using the default drivers of WIndows 7, or the Windows Update drivers, but I had no luck, and many others also didn't. I may try rolling back to some much older Vista drivers to see what happens.
In any case, my purpose here was less to get an answer, and more to really just spread the word more about this problem. Maybe a Microsoft employee will see this post and report it to someone who can have their people talk to nvidia's people, so to speak, because nvidia people do not frequent their forums. There are threads there with issues unsolved from over 2 years ago, and those are similar to some other issues we still have today with TV-Out. But that's another topic entirely.
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Well, no problems so far beyond some flicker. The flicker does make me nervous, but otherwise, no crashes in almost 24 hours. I have been running Folding@Home on it constantly and it doesn't seem to have had any issues with that, either. Folding@Home has it running at 97-98% GPU usage constantly, and it's sitting at 67 degrees Celsius, which is just fine. It is looking more and more like it was my 8800.
But I do still wonder what the ____ could have caused it to act so crazy, hmm...
I am reading this thread carefully for more than an hour. I was hoping to get the solution to this problem. I agree that Microsoft and Nvidia has to work together to solve this issue. I am having the same Graphic card (Nvidia 8800 GT) working with the same OS (Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64) causing the same problem (Freeze, Slowing suddenly, Crash, black screen, etc...) I don't think the problems are caused by the game. It was fine when I used Windows Vista Ultimate x64. The problem only starts to when I started to use Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I tried every possible thing to make it works.
Games I played:
Battle Realms (It freezes with the new driver, and it crash with the old vista driver)
Starcraft (It just freezes anytime during the game with the new driver only, it works fine with the old vista driver)
Combat Arms (It just crash anytime with either drivers)
When something crash, it usually says:
"The display driver has stopped working and has recovered" "
The problem has been explained well in this whole thread, I don't have to explain it again. Whoever knows the solution, please help.
Below is the summary of my system information:
OS Name Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600)
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name CACH-PC
System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model FX7026
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz, 2497 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. DPP3510J.15A.0304.2008.0210.1950, 2/10/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name Cach-PC\Cach
Time Zone Pacific Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.93 GB
Available Physical Memory 818 MB
Total Virtual Memory 7.86 GB
Available Virtual Memory 3.67 GB
Page File Space 3.93 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
My Video Card information:
Name NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0611&SUBSYS_C8023842&REV_A2\4&C971561&0&0008
Adapter Type GeForce 8800 GT, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Adapter RAM 512.00 MB (536,870,912 bytes)
Installed Drivers nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version 8.17.11.9562
INF File oem3.inf (Section003 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1360 x 768 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xE2000000-0xE2FFFFFF
Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xE1FFFFFF
I/O Port 0x00002000-0x0000207F
IRQ Channel IRQ 16
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys (8.17.11.9562, 13.06 MB (13,694,056 bytes), 1/1/2010 8:59 PM)
Thanks a lot for reading. I'm hoping for a solution.
i am having issues with my 9800 gtx as well in windows 7 pro.
my machine wont boot past the windows logo it just goes black and i get nothing. i put in a card with ati graphics and all works well. I would have to say nvidia and microsoft need to get together on this one.
I have similar problem with Nvidia Geforce 7900GTO and W7 x64 , any attempt to change the graphics mode crashes the graphics card , once crashed (looses sync giving diagonal raster pattern, similar to twiddling the horizontal hold on an old tv) it does not recover and I have to shut down via the power button. Have tried newer and older drivers to no avail. I am going to reload Xp x32 as a dual boot which will be a pain as I will have to clean install both systems again. Has anyone tried to use older drivers?
Exactly same problem as mijas12 with Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX, even upgraded to the latest drivers 195.62.
The exact same machine works perfectly well with Vista Ultimate x32, I have both versions of Windows on dual boot.
No game installed, just plain DVD watching. The duration of the freeze is always between 3 and 4 minutes, then it resumes.
Freeze recently happened at 1h30 and 1h50 into some movies I was watching, didn't happen for the latest 2 movies.
